FrightFest 2013 Film Review: The Last Days

“It’s moving, clever, and the effects are stunning!” When a strange epidemic known only as ‘The Panic’ spreads across the globe, rendering everyone hyper-sensitive and agoraphobic, millions of people are trapped in their homes and workplaces. Marc was in his office when it struck, and has remained there for three months. Realising that now is …

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Plastic Jesus by Wayne Simmons Competition

Plastic Jesus

This Is Horror are delighted to announce that we have three copies of Wayne Simmons’ superb new novel Plastic Jesus to give away to our loyal readers. All you have to do to win is to answer the simple question below and send your name, address and contact phone number to news@thisishorror.co.uk. Which zombie author appeared …

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The Waking That Kills by Stephen Gregory Competition

The Waking That Kills

This Is Horror are delighted to announce that we have three copies of Stephen Gregory’s fantastic new novel The Waking That Kills to give away to our lovely readers. All you have to do to win is to answer the simple question below and send your name, address and contact phone number to news@thisishorror.co.uk. Who …

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All Four Year One Chapbooks available at a bargain price and Chalk by Pat Cadigan on Kindle

Year One This Is Horror chapbooks

If you’re looking for Christmas gifts then we may just have the thing for you. We’re practically giving away our year one chapbooks at just £15 for all four limited signature edition chapbooks. We have also slashed the price for year one chapbooks for our US, EU and ROW customers. For those wanting to read …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 November 2013

Welcome to this week’s edition of Must Read Horror, your one-stop shop for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: The Best and Worst Survival Horror Games of the Generation Even More Fun Horror Movies That Received Rotten Reviews The 5 Most Embarrassing Horror Sequels The Good, The Bad, and The …

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News Round-up Week Ending 24 November

Lurker

Something is lurking… DarkFuse have announced the release of Gary Fry’s new novella Lurker. A story of grief, loss and evil, the novella is available now as an eBook from the DarkFuse website. Scavengers heads to DVD In a far away corner of the galaxy, a small crew battle for the fate of humanity in …

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My Top 10 Horror Stories by Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones and Neil Gaiman at the Fearie Tales launch at the World Fantasy Convention photo by Peter Coleborn

Stephen Jones, one of Britain’s most acclaimed and prolific anthologists of horror and dark fantasy, has edited the magnificent Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome for Jo Fletcher Books. Over the years he’s read literally tens of thousands of stories from writers both old and new, and so we knew we were setting him a …

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Dreams and Hannibal

Hannibal TV Show

When I was seventeen I had a pair of uncommonly disturbing dreams. I typically don’t remember much about my dreams at all, even the stand-out ones. These two dreams remain vivid in my mind, 18 years later. The first dream is very short and feels very cinematic to me. I’m driving a pickup truck in …

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Frightfest 2013 Film Review: R.I.P.D.

R.I.P.D

“This is definitely Jeff Bridges’ film. He chews so much scenery that he’ll be shitting green-screens for years to come.” Based on the Dark Horse comic books of the same name, R.I.P.D. is the story of gunned-down detective, Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds), and his placement in an afterlife police force, the Rest In Peace Department. …

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Film Review: Hostel (2005)

Hostel DVD

 “It frankly isn’t the barrage of barbarism it needs to be!” Following  Saw‘s 2003 release it seemed there would be a never ending tide of movies that themselves would unleash a never ending tide of gore. Admittedly this was mostly due to the rapidly re-spawning  Saw franchise itself, but alongside WΔZ  as an original property …

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